Chaitanya Swami

Contributed in building the B2B operations for Pikkol Notable Projects: 1) Improving the Packing Efficiency of packing furniture panels: Switching to a Box Type of Packaging from a regular laborious corrugated wrapping for a leading furniture manufacturer. Resulted in Improved Aesthetics, reduced labor, improved tracking, reduced time and most importantly reduced cost of Packaging by INR 1/sft. 2) Contributed to Pikkolklynse an essential services segment of Pikkol typically to cater to the COVID-19 pandemic. Creating SOP's for organization for post lock-down operations. Chalking out a feasibility & operational plan for disinfection tunnels in terms of cost of operations and sustainability. 3) Drafted a Feasibility & operational plan for grocery on the go project for a leading Indian grocery retailer 4) Drafted a Material Indenting & replenishment plan to support the sourcing operations for packaging project for a leading furniture manufacturer 5) Capacity Planning, Calculating the raw material storage space requirements and creating a plant layout for horizontal deployments across all warehouses 6) Built a customer on-boarding framework/format 7) Worked on building a Requisition to Pay (R2P) system for the organization.

Profile:Business Analyst for Retail Giants and 3PL clients. Trained on Manhattan WMOS Platform. Responsibilities: 1) Managing Manhattan WMOS Platform 2) Creating business process flows 3) Implementation of Warehouse management platform for retailer's warehouse by creating user stories, business use cases by analyzing the happy paths as well as exception to ensure smooth transition 4) Working on RFP’s/RFI’s, building various retail frameworks on areas of retail 5) Worked on an RFP for a retail client to provide Market Assessment Services for Next Generation POS. Project was focused on findings and recommendations of POS providers to the client. Consolidate and compile the fact findings, the insights & recommendations. Creating a "POS solution roadmap" for the client to select from and implement accordingly. 6) Asset Creation: Instrumental in creation of Supply chain Assets-Omin-channel Maturity Assessment framework & Comparison of functionality and features of different WMS packages.

* Responsible for 'Write off Control' of the inventory using analytical tools and techniques of process mapping to reduce or eliminate write off's. Successfully implemented solutions for identified root cause by Systematic approach of Identifying items contributing majorly to write off's in terms of value as well as volume (Pareto analysis), Process mapping, ethnographic research, why-why & root cause analysis and then designing innovative solutions. * Also Responsible for Optimizing Inter hub Vehicle usage and ensuring on time dispatches in-turn reducing transportation costs. Successfully analysed and built a logic which helped in reducing 4 vehicles resulting in substantial savings for 1 warehouse. Also made gateways for horizontal deployment of the logic at all other company owned warehouses. Approach: Analysis of current state (As-is) by analyzing the data, gap analysis for all the related stake holders in the entire chain, proposing a to-be plan.

* Organic Mandya is a start-up which is involved in fair trade of organic agri-products with a threefold mission: help provide sustainable livelihoods to farmers, offer 100% honest organic food to people, and make Mandya district chemical-free. As an operations Intern I worked on implementing the workplace management technique 5-S, Inventory analysis to ensure optimum inventory levels and reduction in wastage of perishables in their stores and also warehouse management at their Mandya warehouse. Objective 1 (5 S-Workplace management) : Visual Identification of Inventory in stores along with Colony maps for easy retrieval of products in a warehouse of 10000-15000 Sq.ft. Also to eliminate Muda, Mura & Muri Objective 2 (Inventory Analysis & Control) : Analyzing the Inventory and finding out root cause to reduce wastage & write offs and implementing inventory control measures

* Achievement: 'Best performer of the year-Materials & Sourcing' in January 2016. Realized a cost saving of INR 1cr. annually majorly by undertaking a Value engineering project to eliminate the bottleneck by developing an alternate source of aluminium * Being a coordinator in vendor development projects Instrumental in implementing Kaizen projects along with C.I.I (confederation of Indian industry). * Meticulous Planning & Procurement of material ‘Just in Time’ to avoid delays. * Responsible for product costings and negotiations with vendors * Instrumental in achieving the target of maintaining the total inventory levels to 1cr. majorly by developing local sources and localization projects thereby reducing the lead times

* Instrumental in designing Industrial Automation Solutions (Special Purpose machines) viz. hydraulic presses, coordinate drilling machine, CNC turning centers etc to improve productivity & quality of products to be machined. * Instrumental in delivering the project on time using MS project to map all the activities, mapping Gantt charts to identify the bottlenecks and eliminating them to ensure timely deliveries. * Major Clients handled: Mahindra & Mahindra, Mahindra Sona, Perfect Circle India Pvt. Ltd.(Anand group), Jamna Auto Industries, Hindustan Coca-cola beverages Pvt. Ltd.